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Original Title:	The Plumed Serpent
ISBN:	0679734937 (ISBN13: 9780679734932)
Edition Language:	English

The Plumed Serpent Paperback | Pages: 464 pages

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OK. It's a mad book, no doubt about it. It's full of ferocity and discontent. And it does seem to ask us to take its ideas about cults and gods and blood seriously. It has stupid notions about race. It is infected with a misanthropic disdain for most people. But it is also struggling with all this, fighting against these damaging instincts. It is rescued, as a book, by its ambivalences and self-questioning. It is also dramatic and powerful. It is a kind of challenge, a kind of poison, but it is something, not nothing, not a novel about petty, dull, self-important people. More a novel about grand, pompous, absurd, self-important creatures. I'm happy I've read it. I would not re-read it.

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Title	:	The Plumed Serpent
Author	:	D.H. Lawrence
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	June 2nd 1992 by Vintage (first published 1926)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature

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Ratings: 3.33 From 1393 Users | 119 Reviews

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Hardly a stranger to controversy, DH Lawrence really went to town on some of societys more sensitive aspects with his largely unheralded later work, The Plumed Serpent. Mixing blasphemy, violence, sensuality and issues of race and gender with a sneering contempt for both developed and third world contemporary cultures, its an explosive work even for todays readers. For the folks back in 1926, it must have seemed an utterly alien piece of literature, which probably helps explain why it was

OK. It's a mad book, no doubt about it. It's full of ferocity and discontent. And it does seem to ask us to take its ideas about cults and gods and blood seriously. It has stupid notions about race. It is infected with a misanthropic disdain for most people. But it is also struggling with all this, fighting against these damaging instincts. It is rescued, as a book, by its ambivalences and self-questioning. It is also dramatic and powerful. It is a kind of challenge, a kind of poison, but it is

'I, if I have children,' said Teresa, 'I shall try to cast my bread upon the waters, so my children come to me that way. I hope I shall. I hope I shall not try to fish them out of life for myself, with a net. I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.--Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.'

Oh.... D.H. Lawrence... Why must you toy with my heart? I've been an avid Lawrence Lunatic (my own term) since college. His earlier works held a distinction from most modern classics, in that they weren't marriage plots; they discussed what happened in the minds (and beds) of the characters post wedded bliss and it was not all roses. Even with deplorable actions, I felt something for Lady Chatterley and her sexcapades, (you made me root for an adulteress... As the kids say nowadays, "I can't

As a writer, Lawrence emits a sense of greatness, of towering above the ordinary and rendering nearly everyone else small-minded by comparison; this is thoroughly in keeping with the attitudes of this very Nietzschean novel. It is the intensity and passion of Lawrence's vision, complemented by astute acerbic insight, that makes him a giant. His stance does tower above more modern, more reasonable, more charitable ones. Do not dismiss him on account of his unpleasant conclusions. It's not what he

Initially I was disappointed with The Plumed Serpent. I had adored D.H.Lawrence when I was young, but that was half a century ago. I assumed that this had been an early novel, but I was wrong. It was written well after my favourite, The Rainbow. Although the descriptions were vintage Lawrence (one would undoubtedly empathise with Kate's disgust at the bullfight because it was depicted so vividly) it quickly got bogged down in description and verse about a revival of Aztec beliefs which is being

The best thing about having read this book is that I will no longer have it on my reading list. The Plumed Serpent is a mishmash of bad sociology, bad anthropology and bad theology all jumbled together in a noxious stew of racism, sexism and neo-paganism.